Curtis is the first female president at ISU. She previously served as provost at the University of Central Missouri.
Plans for Curtis’ inauguration ceremony have not been finalized.
WBOI’s Julia Meek talked to John Fishell, IPFW’s director of music technology, about what the new school means for Purdue students.
The book also continues to raise important questions about science and technology. For these and many other reasons, Indiana Humanities is presenting One State / One Story: Frankenstein, an ambitious slate of programming around the classic novel. More than 70 communities across the state will participate by hosting read-a-thons, community reads, college and university programs, and more.
“The goal of that is to get everybody in Indiana and as many people as we can reading the book and talking about the big themes that are in it,” says Indiana Humanities Vice-President Kristen Fuhs Wells.
Dr. Mike Mohrman is the Chief Medical Officer at Neighborhood Health Clinic, he says believing that we will see more influenza diagnoses because of the cold weather is a misconception. You get influenza from contact with other people.
Dr. Mohrman says he gets plenty of calls from patients describing their symptoms and if it’s flu season he adds some doctors will diagnose over the phone. Though that’s not what you learn in medical school, it can prevent infected patients from leaving their house and potentially spreading the virus.
Indiana Artisan Carol Burt has been scraping and painting her creations for nearly 20 years.
“In 2001, I took my first pottery class. The thing I liked about it the most – I liked to draw and paint,” says Carol, who studied art as a graduate student at Ball State University. “When I found out I can draw and paint on top of the clay, it made it a lot more fun.”
And she’s been doing it ever since. She loved it so much, she turned it into a small side business.
Sen. Jean Leising addresses the Senate Committee on Education and Career Development about her cursive writing bill. (Jeanie Lindsay/IPB News)
The debate about teaching cursive to Hoosier kids has returned to the statehouse, and the lawmaker behind the cursive writing bill has shown no signs of backing down from the issue.
Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg) has filed legislation every year since 2011 that would require elementary schools to teach cursive, and it’s died every year in the House of Representatives. But Leising says she won’t give up.
“I can’t hardly go anywhere in my district without someone speaking to me about ‘what are you doing about cursive? This is ridiculous,’” she says.
We shared a story about the crossing guards kerfuffle a few weeks ago.
The new plan, effective until the end of the school year, calls for Elkhart Schools to pay for Crossing Guards and for the city’s Police Department to fund 3 School Resource Officers, or SRO’s. Mayor Tim Neese said the amounts equal about the same.
Mike LaRocco is the director of transportation for the IDOE. He says school buses aren’t safe for preschoolers because the kids are too small.
“They would submarine under the seat in front of them in a crash situation,” LaRocco says. “So depending on the age and size of the child the school district will have to evaluate what kind of restraint system that they will put the child in.”
LaRocco says the State School Bus Committee started talking about requiring restraints in 2012, but this is the first regulation of its kind in Indiana.
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Indiana could soon join a growing list of states with laws allowing students to carry sunscreen at school.
The Food and Drug Administration classifies sunscreen as an over the counter medication, like painkillers or cold medicine, and that means some school policies require students to have a doctor or parent’s note in order to even bring sunscreen to school.
For the last two decades, IU Northwest has provided free workshops, seminars, and programs for seniors throughout the year.
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